Charles Colson

Charles Wendell "Chuck" Colson (16 October 1931-21 April 2012) was White House Counsel from 6 November 1969 to 9 July 1970 (succeeding John Ehrlichmann and preceding John Dean) and Director of the Office of Public Liaison from 9 July 1970 to 10 March 1973 (preceding William Baroody). He served seven months in prison after the Watergate scandal.

Biography
Charles Colson was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 16 October 1931, and he helped to raise money at his high school to buy the US Army a jeep during World War II, later working on Republican Governor Robert F. Bradford's re-election campaign in 1948. Colson served in the US Marine Corps from 1953 to 1955 and later became a lawyer and political aide, joining Richard Nixon's administration in January 1969 as a counsel to the Key Issues Committee. From November 1969 to July 1970, he served as White House Counsel, and he served as Director of the Office of Public Liaison from July 1970 to March 1973. Colson became known as Nixon's "hatchet man", and he attempted to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg; at the height of the Watergate scandal, he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. Colson served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama, the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges. In 1973, he converted to Christianity from secularism, and he founded the non-profit Prison Fellowship ministry; he founded Prison Fellowship International Three Years Later. Colson became a public speaker and the author of 30 books, later founding the BreakPoint ministry in 1991, using radio commentary to spread his views. In 2008, President George W. Bush awarded him the Presidential Citizens Medal, and he died in 2012.